Earlier this year the Italian environmental group Legambient released its annual
report which concludes the Mafia made 16.7 billion euros or $22.4
billion in 2012 by dumping waste and otherwise polluting the environment
including "the deliberate torching of about 160,000 acres of woodland
and
forests to make way for development" as reported by Press TV.
The report documents 34,000 environmental crimes involving 28,000
suspected perps from 302 Mafia clans.

Of course, public corruption
enables much of the illegal dumping and other environmental crimes in Italy.

06/19/2013

The Italian environmental group Legambient has released its annual report which concludes the Mafia made 16.7 billion euros or $22.4 billion in 2012 by dumping waste and otherwise polluting the environment including "the deliberate torching of about 160,000 acres of woodland and
forests to make way for development" as reported by Press TV. The report documents 34,000 environmental crimes involving 28,000 suspected perps from 302 Mafia clans. Of course, public corruption enabled much of the illegal dumping and other environmental crimes.

07/10/2012

Last year the Mafia in Italy earned 16 billion euros or nearly $20 billion "through a depressing litany of environmental crimes, from dumping toxic waste to illicit coastal development and the trafficking of endangered species" as reported by Nick Squires for The Telegraph.

06/08/2011

Among the lucrative rackets for the Mafia groups in Italy is dumping toxic and other waste which generates 20 billion euros or nearly $30 billion a year according to the annual Ecomafia report by the environmental organization Legambiente as reported by Michael Day for The Independent:

Campania, the region around Naples whose streets are perpetually carpeted in piles of stinking garbage, is the worst-hit part of the country, it is claimed. The local mafia, the Camorra, is frequently blamed for exacerbating or even causing the rubbish crisis – by encouraging the closure of official incineration plants – in order to fan demand for its illegal dumping services.